Article
Abundant mitochondrial DNA variation and world-wide population structure in humpback whales.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Sept 1993
Baker C S, Perry A, Bannister J L, Weinrich M T, Abernethy R B, Calambokidis J, Lien J, Lambertsen R H, Ramírez J U, Vasquez O
Abstract excerpt
Hunting during the last 200 years reduced many populations of mysticete whales to near extinction. To evaluate potential genetic bottlenecks in these exploited populations, we examined mitochondrial DNA control region sequences from 90 individual humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) represent...
Topics
- Animals
- Atlantic Ocean
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Pacific Ocean
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Whales